LÖVE 0.9.0 released

[suppayami]

Wow nice work
Btw, where can I download all the dependencies for Windows and MacOSX?

[slime]

For compiling LÖVE yourself? For Windows there's Megasource which has everything you'll need. For Mac OS X you can just take the frameworks (except for love.framework) out of love.app and put them in /Library/Frameworks/ and the Xcode project will recognize them. I'll get the OSX frameworks up as a standalone download soon.

[suppayami]

Thank you slime ^_^

[Davidobot]

Is it me or is math.random() and the new love.math.random() in LOVE 0.9.0 always giving out the same number with the same seed?

[jjmafiae]

Did you run it in love.update/love.load?

[bartbes]

Is it me or is math.random() and the new love.math.random() in LOVE 0.9.0 always giving out the same number with the same seed?

Yes, the sequence of numbers is the same given the same seed. This has always been the case. That's what it's meant to do.

[Davidobot]

Is it me or is math.random() and the new love.math.random() in LOVE 0.9.0 always giving out the same number with the same seed?

Yes, the sequence of numbers is the same given the same seed. This has always been the case. That's what it's meant to do.

So if I execute the following code:

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randomGen = love.math.newGenerator()
randomGen:setSeed(4)

local number = randomGen:random(1, 10)

number will always equal the same number?

[Nixola]

Exactly

[jjmafiae]

its like minecraft

[Dattorz]

Exciting release! I just updated my own engine code to 0.9.

There's some undocumented breakage(?) in love.filesystem.load(). When the file it is trying to load doesn't exist, it simply returns nil. Previously the function would call error() stating that the file did not exist. This is actually a welcome change for me as I use .lua files as a property system and would rather print warnings than errors if the properties.lua file is missing - now I no longer have to wrap the call to love.filesystem.load() within pcall(). The change did, however, cause my warning messages to go weird.

Then again, the wiki never quite specified the error behavior on a missing file. Yet, the change also means that said wiki page is now out of date.